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You can call it whatever you like. I didn't say it was an environmental program, it is first and foremost a revenue generation program under a clever guise to d
by ty6853 2y ago
You can call it whatever you like. I didn't say it was an environmental program, it is first and foremost a revenue generation program under a clever guise to dupe towards political leaning of new yorkers.
You can read their own description, they green wash advertising cleaner air, less emissions, etc.
https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03612 https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03612
- maxerickson 2y agoIt's not greenwashing if it actually does those things? The horrors of less traffic and uh, less actual pollution.
- rightbyte 2y agoYe probably the wrong thing to accuse of green washing. I think he tries to brown wash the tolls to hide that they are environmentally friendly to prying eyes by accusing the NYC road dep. of green washing. edit: (Brown as in dirt, not anything else)
- rafram 2y agoThey didn’t need to dupe anyone; the program is indisputably not popular and they implemented it anyway. The two goals of congestion pricing have always been to generate revenue for the MTA and reduce congestion/pollution in Manhattan. They never hid that. Most transit advocates support both of those goals, and the beauty of congestion pricing (as opposed to a revenue-only option like an extra tax on businesses in the congestion zone) is that it can accomplish both at once.
- acdha 2y agoI’d also note that popularity has been going up as everyone sees the benefits immediately and the predictions of a business meltdown turned out not to be true. It feels very similar to the bans on indoor smoking where smokers predicted restaurants and bars would close and the opposite happened.